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Annual Trends of Human Brucellosis in Pastoralist Communities of South Kansiime et al. Infectious Diseases of Poverty (2015) 4:39 DOI 10.1186/s40249-015-0072-y RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Annual trends of human brucellosis in pastoralist communities of south-western Uganda: a retrospective ten-year study Catherine Kansiime1*, Elizeus Rutebemberwa1, Benon B. Asiimwe2, Fredrick Makumbi3, Joel Bazira4 and Anthony Mugisha5 Abstract Background: Human brucellosis is prevalent in both rural and urban Uganda, yet most cases of the disease in humans go unnoticed and untreated because of inaccurate diagnosis, which is often due to the disease not manifesting in any symptoms. This study was undertaken to describe trends in laboratory-confirmed human brucellosis cases at three health facilities in pastoralist communities in South-western, Uganda. Methods: Data were collected retrospectively to describe trends of brucellosis over a 10-year period (2003–2012), and supplemented with a prospective study, which was conducted from January to December 2013. Two public health facilities and a private clinic that have diagnostic laboratories were selected for these studies. Annual prevalence was calculated and linearly plotted to observe trends of the disease at the health facilities. A modified Poisson regression model was used to estimate the risk ratio (RR) and 95 % confidence intervals (CIs) to determine the association between brucellosis and independent variables using the robust error variance. Results: A total of 9,177 persons with suspected brucellosis were identified in the retrospective study, of which 1,318 (14.4 %) were confirmed cases. Brucellosis cases peaked during the months of April and June, as observed in nearly all of the years of the study, while the most noticeable annual increase (11–23 %) was observed from 2010 to 2012. In the prospective study, there were 610 suspected patients at two public health facilities. Of these, 194 (31.8 %) were positive for brucellosis. Respondents aged 45–60 years (RR = 0.50; CI: 0.29–0.84) and those that tested positive for typhoid (RR = 0.68; CI: 0.52–0.89) were less likely to have brucellosis. Conclusions: With the noticeable increase in prevalence from 2010 to 2012, diagnosis of both brucellosis and typhoid is important for early detection, and for raising public awareness on methods for preventing brucellosis in this setting. Keywords: Trends, Brucellosis, Pastoralist communities Background The most recent review of the disease indicates that the Brucellosis is considered to be the most common zoo- highest incidence of brucellosis in Africa was recorded notic infection worldwide [1], with more than 500,000 in Algeria at 84.3 per million of population per year, and cases recorded annually [2, 3]. In Africa, especially south the lowest in Uganda at 0.9 per million of population of the Sahara, many of the known zoonotic diseases – per year. The disease is known to be endemic in including brucellosis – commonly occur and are poorly Cameroon and Ethiopia, but no specific data is available controlled in both humans and domesticated animals. for these countries [1]. In Sub-Saharan Africa, most human cases of brucellosis go unnoticed and untreated because of inaccurate diagno- * Correspondence: [email protected] sis, which is often due to the disease not manifesting in 1Department of Health Policy, Planning and Management, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7072, any specific symptoms. This makes it difficult to clinically Kampala, Uganda distinguish brucellosis from typhoid, rheumatic fever, joint Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © 2015 Kansiime et al. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. Kansiime et al. Infectious Diseases of Poverty (2015) 4:39 Page 2 of 8 diseases and malaria [4]. For this reason, official figures do referral hospital in the former headquarters of Mbarara. not fully reflect the actual burden, and the World Health The private clinic was chosen because it had detailed Organization estimates that the true incidence of the dis- records of patients that attended the clinic during our ease in developing countries may be between 10 and 25 study period and had many referred patients from times higher than what reported figures indicate [5]. With Mbarara hospital. its diverse clinical manifestations, human brucellosis can All the districts in the study area are mainly comprised only be proven by laboratory diagnosis. populations whose livelihoods depend on cattle as well In Uganda, human brucellosis has been reported to as other animal products for food and trade. They are: be prevalent in both rural and urban settings [6, 7]. A farmers who are settled and solely grow crops (mostly recent study revealed that 12.6 % of informally mar- recent migrants to the area), agro-pastoralists who rear keted milk in urban Kampala was contaminated with cattle as well as practice farming, and pure pastoralists Brucella abortus at purchase; and that the annual hu- or semi-nomads who rear cattle but have permanent man incidence rate was estimated to be 5.8 per 10,000 shelters, moving their animals in dry seasons in search people [8]. Studies on animal brucellosis have also been of water and pasture. The Lyantonde District neighbours done in Uganda, reporting a herd prevalence of 55.6 % the Kiruhura District, a predominantly cattle keeping and an animal prevalence of 15.8 % in the pastoral area, and was therefore purposively selected to capture dairy system in the Mbarara District [9], while higher that population. This hospital receives patients from figures of up to 100 % at herd level and 30 % at animal both the Lyantonde and Kiruhura districts, as well as level were reported in the central district of Nakasongola neighbouring areas. [10]. Brucellosis is also prevalent among Ugandan wildlife [11]. Pastoral communities in Uganda are commonly found living on the periphery, adjacent to wildlife conser- Study design vation parks. Additionally, their close contact with cattle, A retrospective study was conducted from January as well as their love for consuming raw milk and fermen- 2003 to December 2012, inclusive, in order to describe ted milk products exposes them to brucellosis. While trends in the prevalence of brucellosis over a 10-year health education and promotion outreach programmes period. This was done by reviewing serological reports are conducted in such communities, it is not known if at the Mbarara University teaching hospital and the they are successful. Conducting a trends analysis is im- Mbarara diagnostic clinic. This was also supplemented portant to assess the effectiveness of such programmes. by a 1-year prospective study (January to December The objective of this study was to describe trends in 2013), which was conducted at the Mbarara University laboratory-confirmed human brucellosis cases at two teaching hospital and Lyantonde hospital in order to fill public hospitals and a private clinic in the Mbarara and the gaps of the retrospective study. Lyantonde districts, in southwestern Uganda. We en- visage that the data obtained will inform public health efforts for the design of effective health education pro- Data collection grammes and development of control strategies against For both the retrospective and prospective studies, brucel- brucellosis in the country. losis test results and socio-demographic data of the pa- tients were obtained from laboratory records. The selected laboratories in these studies follow a standard operating Methods procedure recommended by the Ministry of Health, Study setting Uganda. Records were searched for all suspected cases Our study was conducted at three health facilities that that presented to the selected clinics during the period have the capacity to diagnose and treat brucellosis: two between January 2003 and December 2012. During the public laboratories (the Mbarara University teaching prospective study, patients took brucellosis tests (January hospital and the Lyantonde hospital), and a private clinic to December 2013). Recommendation by a clinician to (the Mbarara diagnostic clinic). The retrospective study test for brucellosis was based on the presence of clin- focused on the Mbarara University teaching hospital ical signs and symptoms of fever, sweating, fatigue and and Mbarara diagnostic clinic, which are situated less other symptoms as defined by the Centers for Disease than 1 km apart. These were purposively selected Control and Prevention [12]. Individual information on because the teaching hospital serves as the referral sex, age, area of residence, month of diagnosis and hospital for five districts that were formerly part of the antibody titres were obtained. Serological testing was Greater Mbarara District before it was divided into five done at the hospitals by the plate agglutination test, smaller districts (Isingiro, Kiruhura, Kazo, Ibanda and which has a sensitivity and specificity of 0.771 and Mbarara). The people in these districts still access the 0.960,
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